I've landed my dream job at Wigan Warriors- there's no hierarchy and I'm on first name terms with the players
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Vic is the Video Content Producer for Betfred Super League champions Wigan Warriors and has now spent five years with the team that she grew up watching every weekend as a loyal fan in the stands.
The journey started before Vic arrived at Salford, with the 24-year-old taking a Creative Media course at college as she was keen to develop a career in media. She chose the University of Salford after being won over by the MediaCity campus, and the rest was history.
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Hide Ad“I didn’t look at any others because of where the Salford campus was and the connections it had in the area. Something just really drew me to it and it ended up living up to the billing,” she said.
“Unfortunately, COVID-19 was a big factor. The pandemic happened during my second year and the vast majority of my third year. It meant I had little time on campus over the last two years. When I was there, it was great, and I would have definitely loved to have been there more.”
Vic initially spent a year doing unpaid work within the Warriors media set-up where she spent time gathering content for the club’s channels at the training base and match days at the Brick Community Stadium.
Due to the pandemic, a majority of the games in the first year were played behind closed doors, so it wasn’t until the 2021 season, when Vic was in her final year at Salford, that she started covering every home match day and spending two to three days a week with the club.
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Vic said: “I learnt so much from just being there. I was there for so long and because I wasn’t able to have a lot of hands-on time at university, my time there was more than making up for it and ultimately, I was proving to them that I could do the job.”
After graduating in the summer of 2021, Vic was then offered a full-time role at the Warriors and over the last four years, has risen to the post of Video Content Producer.
“It really is my dream job. It is very busy during the season but then we have a great team. We are all very close knit, and we make sure that each of us has the right work life balance and that we’re flexible with our time as well,” she said.
Reflecting on the year, Vic said: “It was an amazing experience. At each big moment, we didn’t want to get ahead of ourselves. The players were very confident, but the backroom staff were more reserved.
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Hide AdMatt Peet [Head Coach, Wigan Warriors] had the mentality of treating every semi-final like the final and the players bought into that. The vibes around the club were something else. I’ve never experienced anything quite like it.
“I think when it came to Old Trafford, when we won the Grand Final, it didn’t sink in right away because we were just processing it. But then afterwards, when we had all the trophies together, it was like ‘what have we done?’ When I think back to it, being a part of it was just absolutely unreal.”
The unforgettable year was also poignant for Vic as her attachment to the club goes beyond childhood fandom. Her father, Ian, was a big Warriors fan and the person that introduced her and her brother to the sport as children. Sadly, Ian passed away just for a few months before Vic started at Salford.
She said: “It happened around the time that I was due to finish college, and I remember that a lot of people were shocked as to how I dealt with it because I turned it into a positive.
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Hide Ad“I thought that I had to keep going, I needed to follow through on going to university and achieving my dreams. I know that’s what he would have wanted me to do. To go get a first and get a job that I know he would have loved to be doing.”
She added: “Working for a sports team is something that I never thought I would do, especially Wigan, a team that has always been in my family. This is the club that I grew up watching and now I get to be around the team all the time and get to know things that fans would dream about.
“The best thing is that they are such a great team to work with. Everyone, regardless of their seniority or function within the club, looks out for each other. There’s no big hierarchy. Everyone is on a level playing field and first name basis.”
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